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RE: RE: [ECS] MS Outlook and ECS David Kindred Tue, 5 Dec 2000 15:07:50 -0500

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Scott,

Mark's DDE connection to ECS lets you monitor and set the states of
individual items within ECS. It's not really a way for other off-the-shelf
programs to interact with it. You'd have to write something quite specific
to communicate with ECS (like ACE). If you want to get information from,
say, Outlook to ECS. You'd have to have a "middle man" program to act as the
go between, I believe.

ODBC stands for "Open Database Connectivity" and is kind of a generic way to
access database information, regardless of the actual database engine being
used. Again, if you'd want to integrate an ODBC compliant database, you'd
have to write a utility to interact with it and ECS.

--David

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Danks [mailto:sdanks@ci.tulsa.ok.us]
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 10:47 AM
To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
Subject: Re: RE: [ECS] MS Outlook and ECS


I have a question for some of you programming guru's out there.  I see
several programs that could interact with ECS, that would give us expanded
abilities.  Am I right in thinking that we could communicate with other
programs if we had an DDE connection to ECS?  I know there is one that Mark
has made that allows the ability to check status inside ECS ¯ but would it
be a good idea to see if we can let ECS be a client also?  Would this allow
us to integrate information from outlook, access, sql server, excel, etc?
Or am I thinking of OBDC?  Would that be a useful option?

Just some thoughts here.

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